Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:41:53 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> You know what I think it is (without actually looking at the code): I  
> think
> they tried to do some highly misguided and even more poorly implemented  
> hack
> (which they no-doubt thought was clever) for dealing with *cough* "old"
> *cough* browsers by inserting a meta redirect to a hardcoded URL, and  
> then
> used JS to disable the meta redirect. If that's the case, I don't know  
> how
> the fuck they managed to convince themselves that make one drop of sense.

It could be that they don't care to cater to people who hate JS.  There  
aren't that many of you.

You may want to consider -- if you on principle don't view pages with  
information because the pages contain JS, you are the one missing out on  
the information.

If you worked for my company, and you didn't like JS, you'd have a tough  
(actually impossible) time using the web application we have for tracking  
things.

-Steve